Mukhtar Ansari, an Independent MLA supported by the ruling Samajwadi Party, and Vijay Mishra of the SP are only released to attend Assembly proceedings and that’s the only outing allowed to them. Both are at present residents of government hospitals and are brought to the Assembly in ambulances.While Ansari is booked for murder, Mishra for attacking a BSP leader and while the country thinks they are serving their punishments, in reality,they got the liberty to attend yesterday’s grand lunch with Pranab Mukherjee.

Abu Jundal with many alias names was arrested last week,after being deported from Saudi Arabia at the Delhi Airport.Surely this is a major breakthrough for India as he is one of those operators who is said, was sitting at some Karachi Headquarters of ISI, guiding terrorists who had intruded Mumbai in Nov 2008! He is also said to have coached Pakistan based terrorists, Hindi, to accomplish the terror mission! Jundal who originally belongs to India has been making Headlines almost every second hour since he is caught – What kind of guy he was as a kid ?, His mother says he is innocent !,He has Pakistani Passport as well ! ,where is the LeT,the Terror outfit, plans to bomb next ! Pakistan’s denial of being involved in terror attack after Abu Jundal confessed help from ISI and the list just continues ….

How do these ‘Breaking News’ help now ? He has already done what he had to, in 2008 and no matter how many proofs India, Pakistan will never accept involvement in Mumbai Terror Attacks! By terming these things Breaking News , how long will Media and News Channels waste our time ? How does it matter, what kind of child a terrorist was ? Has he done something heroic ? What is the point of highlighting his family’s point of view who considered him dead while he went missing since 6 years ? How can the family say he is innocent when for 6 years the family did not know about his whereabouts? if these terrorists continue being Breaking News, no big deal, if kids at our homes may start considering terrorists , some super heroes who are so popular !:)

Since Jayalalithaa’s AIADMK party took over the government of Tamil Nadu from DMK, many senior DMK leaders and hundreds of party cadre have been put behind bars on land grab charges which DMK claims, is made-up while the ruling party says is based on genuine complaints. To protest against this , DMK supremo Karunanidhi decided to held “Fill the Jails” agitation,today.About 50,000 DMK cadres and leaders are participating in the protest and this includes Karunanidhi’s daughter,Kanimozhi and son,Stalin.Kanimozhi is out from jail, on bail, in the 2G Scam case and has got permission from court to participate in the protest !

Yuva Sena, led by Uddhav Thackeray’s son Aaditya Thackeray, initiated a movement against shops and tapris selling cigarettes near school premises.Incidently, the first joint Yuva Sena targeted was Shaarda Paan Bhandar which is also the cigarette supplier for his uncle, Raj Thackeray,who is MNS supremo and Shiv Sena rival(Yuva Sena is a wing of Shiv Sena).

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Akhilesh Yadav has proposed that MLAs who do not have a car of their own should be allowed to buy a car within Rs 20 lakhs, using state funds, for survey work in their constituencies.After the 5 year term the car could be returned to the government or be bought by the MLA at a depreciated value.Most of the MLAs were happy the way they are ! Some expressed ideas of spending the money on development work of their constituencies rather than buying cars out of taxpayer’s money.

Well, it sounds astonishing that our politicians are bothered about the public and not themselves and that too in a state like Uttar Pradesh where the last Chief Minister,Mayawati, had spent lakhs and crores of state-fund to build her own and party symbol’s(elephant) monuments ,all over the state capital! 🙂

The NCERT panel which is Government-appointed committee looking into the controversy surrounding political cartoons in school textbooks said that cartoons with negative references to politicians and bureaucrats should be removed from the textbooks.They also found too many cartoons of Nehru-Gandhi family which they recommended to remove as well.

Well, cartoons seem to be bothering our politicians, way too much, be they are on school textbooks or on social networks! 😉 . Are cartoons just not a medium of expression ? Who defines ‘Negative References’ ? Political columns , hundreds in number, everyday, get pressed in newspapers and online. Even those writings criticize politicians and political scenarios of recent times and of the past. Like writing even drawing is a way of expression about a thing,person or situation. Isn’t it ? What are we scared about as politicians ? What is their in the past which we do not want our future generations to know ? Someday, it may happen that books criticizing particular politicians of past and their decisions may be banned ! Is this democracy or hypocrisy in the name of it ? 🙁

Spot fixing in cricket is as sinful as murdering the thrill of the sport, at least for cricket lovers and India where the sport is a religion in itself, spot fixing by players is all the more sinful.

BCCI is the richest Cricket Board of the World and undoubtedly cricket players who are almost Gods are one of the richest professionals in the country. Unlimited money and untamed fame are the special features of cricket in India and hence competition is high to be a part of Team India and moreover to sustain there. With the introduction of new game format twenty-20 which is the shortest form of the sport, new talents are also getting opportunity to not only show their skill but also make money and fame. Spot-fixing is the hazardous bi-product which a short-cut way of making money for players ! Where the world around bets on each and every ball delivered and runs scored or wickets taken on them , it is the same one ball which can fetch a player a hefty amount if he does what has been told to him by the organizer of illegitimate bets ! Think, if you know what is going to be the result of the game between two equally capable teams and to top it , if you know the game almost ball by ball !

A sting operation by news channel revealed 2 young players f domestic level were willing to be paid money for doing what the journalist(portraying as organizer of illegitimate betting) wanted them to, on the field ! The players, T. Sudhindra and Shalabh Srivastava are the sufferers of greed. Sudhindra has been barred to play cricket for life as he accepted bribe for spot-fixing for domestic level match while Srivastava has been barred for 5 years for agreeing to such deal!